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"The historian, before he begins to write history, is the product of history."

"This chapter endeavours to take a different tack, namely to reread the Stasi as an institution embedded in socialist society rather than hovering above it. Even if the Stasi became a latter-day secret society in its own right, it never could have achieved its wide influence without the participation and compliance of hundreds of thousands of people, often in the form of a reserve army of voluntary informants." p.23